Monday, January 11, 2010

Biblical Mysteries: The Great Symbology of the Elusive Snake/Serpent









We are all familiar with the 7 days of creation in the old testament of the Bible.But how about the scroll with 7 seals that have to be loosing in the book of the revelation in the new testament of the Bible ? The Buddha's body encircled 7 times by Mukalinda? The Kaaba in Mecca were all Muslim pilgrims are obliged to circle 7 times? Or the 7 chakras or subtle energy centers that should be open in Yoga?

The symbolical number 7 is also always closely connected with the symbolical snake or serpent just like the case of Buddha encircled 7 times by Mulakinda,the serpent King...Kundalini or Sakti is also symbolized as a sleeping serpent coiled at the base of the spine.

The Lord said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived. ~ Moses (Numbers 21:8-9)"

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life." ~ Jesus (John 3:14-15)

We could read here in the old and new testament of the Bible that the symbolical snake or serpent is also connected with life itself...with salvation...with immortality.

Here is the much misunderstood great symbology by Moses regarding the snake or serpent:

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' " "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." ~ Moses ( Genesis 3:1-5)

After the said fall of man....

And the Lord God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. ~ Moses ( Genesis 3:22-24)

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